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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1937)
- Going on Vacation t, - It' not necessary to lose Coach with bomc conma tty errata. Have The States man follow you wherever 70m go. Telephone Q10L, , '.-4. ! f -Weather - : V - Pair- and ; warmer today ad Wedaesdays Max. Temp. Monday 82, Mia. 47 river -2.B feet, light north erly wind, clear. : POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR BaJem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning-, August S, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 110 Oybf LootiMff of Consulate ecli v ..... '1 .Rids r-7 Plumbers Are On Strike for $10 Day Wage "Eight Shops Involved in Dispute; Forty Hour Week Also Asked - Union Plans not Told as Master Plumbers Try to Fulfill Orders Eight union plumbing shops found tbemselYes without benefit of plumbers, other than the pro nrtetnrs themselves, yesterday morning as the journeymen plum bers union here held a special " meeting and roted to go on strike for a $18 a day wage and 40-hour week. The past union wage had been $8 a day. Whether or not the Journeymen planned to "picket the eight shops or take other action than that of refusing to work remained un known to the master plumbers. A Journeyman spokesman refused to answer the telephone when a reporter put In & call at his home. "I don't know anything other than that the men are not work ing, Earl S. Patton, president of "the Master (employer) Plumbers association, said. Request Pending For Two Months The association, whose mem bers are the only employers af fected by the walkout, has eight f the city's 17 plumbing shops, Patton stated. He said the union had asked two months ago for the raise In pay. Other members of the employ er's association said they were taking no new orders for plumb ing work but were accepting bus iness where customers were will ing to wait until the master plumbers, themselves - could get around to doing the work desired. An air of expectancy hovered over the restaurant business yes terday as the operators awaited Impending action against them by the Culinary Alliance local, which had set Sunday as a deadline for an employer-signup with the un ion. The operators, acting through the Salem Restaurant Operators association, declined to sign the final union contract proposal. C. A. Chambers, alliance bus iness agent, announced last night the restaurant workers union would hold a special meeting late today to decide on picketing plans which he said would be put in ef fect Wednesday. Both the Journeymen plumbers union and the Culinary Alliance local are American Federation of Labor affiliates. Trindle to Draft Courthouse Plan Hearing Schedule William H. Trindle, former district attorney, has been em nloyed by the county court to out line schedule of hearings requlr m.A Kv law tn iMomsinr the elec tion which has been set for No vember 2 for a vote on the court a proposal to build a new court house, Commissioner Leroy Hew He Bald District Attorney Lyle J. Page was too busy with other a Va fh tima to study Ui m w - . ia lATurai Urws which must be followed by the court In connec tion with the construction v rram. Trindle la expected to as- semble the data witnin a iew aj. Budget Group for City Is Selected Anntlntmant rtf lit of the 15 it hnAo'At ftnmmtttee citizen members was announced last night. The combined citizen ana . eouncil committee will hold Its first meeting August If. ruivanm nn the committee In elude W. E. Hanson, Ralph Coo- ley, Lee p. LeGarle. O. r. xw rtinluri TUrt ITnrd. H- H. Olln r m. Rimacre. Arthur Welch, T. C. Peerenboom, Don Madison, XI. H. Bailey, R. D. Slater, Wil liam J. Entress and forme Mayor Douglas McKay. . Mrs. Campbell Church Funeral on Wednesday ETTGENE. Anrnst t -UPi Mrs. Campbell Church, wife of one of Eueene'a most nromlnent citizens, died here early this. morning. She was born In Troy, N. T., In 1882, eominr to Eneene In 19Z1. un eral services will be held here Wednesday, Hotel Manager Victim PORTLAND, Aug. 2-P)-I E Boat . 37, manager of the Sover eign hotelsuccumbed today from a broken Jeck suffered Sunday when his automobile crashed Into a power jole and overturned. Interim Appointment To Supreme Cov fis Stirring Horr iVesf Vandenherg and Others Who Opposed Court Packing Bill Oppose Delay in Selection by Roosevelt Until After Adjournment; Reply Is Made WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. nouncement that President Roosevelt has been advised he! can fill the present supreme court vacancy after congress adjourns stirred up a hornet's nest today among senate foes of his defeated court reorganization bill. Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) proposed that the senate t Protest of WPA Releases Voiced Sewing Project Slash Is Deplored; big Meeting Sunday Announced Action aimed at obtaining a promise of relief for WPA sewing project women laid off work last week in line with the economy program, and to lay out a long range program of resistance to further reduction In the i project was taken at a meeting of sixty women held at the city library last night. A number of men who had been laid off. Including a del egation from Woodburn, also at tended. In the relief matter, It was de- elded that this morning at 10 o' clock the body of about 75 work ers who already have received fin al checks will go to the relief of fices and ask a definite answer as to their status. Pearl Stewart and Betty Morrow will act as spokes men. The first step to be taken against further reductions will be to insist that Governor Charles H. Martiii, rectify an Impression al- ' legedly spread by him on his last trip to Washington, D. C, that Oregon was recovering from the depression and does not need fur ther relief, it was decided. Resolutions of protest against WPA cuts will also be sent to the Oregon delegation in congress urging support of the Schwellen- bach-Allen bill. A number of Individual women spoke at the meeting in Indignant protest against the reduction in personnel, at the sewings projects here. Many testified that they were faced with destitution. It was suggested that were gov ernment pay checks discontinued; the ex-workers go on a form of sltdown strike" whereby they oc cupy their houses, and challenge grocery owners and city services alike to cut off their supplies of necessities. Hal Spring, assistant state sec (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Surveyor Injured Badly in Tumble, Crater Lake Wall KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. X.- (JP)-Douglaa Huff, Portland, a surveyor with tne ieaerat oureau of public roads, was in the hos pital tonight suffering Injuries sustained in a fail from the cra ter lake wall earlier in the day. Huff received head and possible internal injuries. Witnesses said his foot slipped while working on a new portion of the rim road. Falling 40 feet down the cun toward the lake waters. Huff lodged against a rock and was covered by falling debris. It was some time oeiore ne couiu uo lifted back to the rim. Beach Comber With Protest Borne seople battle for xone ' changes, others for beer licenses",. but latest to apply to eaiem a august city council for relief are the city dump "beach combers," a band of men and boys who un til recently were permitted to wander over the city's incinera tor grounds in search of saleable bottles, rags, paper and scraps of metaL ' : The trouble now, according to a petition submitted by 14 sign ers, including two women; is that two men recently were granted a monopoly on the scavenging priv ileges. The petitioners want the city dump either thrown open cnce more to any and all "Junk ers" or, at least, that the right to rummage through the city's tin can heaps be advertised for bids.-. -: - The city council incinerator committee Is cognizant of the sit uation. Alderman Edwin C. Good enough told his fellow aldermen. In tact, he said, "my office has been filled with 'Junkers for six weeks wanting to know, what we were going to do." The council by filing the peti tion without further action in ef (AP) A White House an go on record against an after-i aajournment appointment. He suggested it adopt a resolution declaring the president should; nominate supreme court Justices when it Is possible for the senate to pass upon them before the nominees serve any time on the high bench. j White House officials an nounced that Attorney General Cummings, In an informal opinion, ruled that the chief ex ecutive can fill the vacancy, cre-i ated by the retirement of Justice' Willis Van Devanter June jj either now or after congress ad journs. ! i Although Stephen T. Early, a (Turn to Page 1, Col. I) ! 4 21 Persons Hurt ! As Train Derails V Six Cars Leave Track a Yamsay; one Woman in Serious Condition KLAMATH FALLS. Or. Int Cars Of an - .A merlin Express tour special bound from! California to Portland left tlisl rail on the Southern PaHfi mainline near , Yamsay, 7ft milej nonn oi here today. Injuring 111 persons. 1 Doctors and nurses from w J and nearby commnnittea rushed to the scene of the wreck io give nrst aid. Mrs. Harry McCnllourh At u lentown. Pa., who previously had l Turn to rage I, CoL 6) Balanced Concert Program Tonight A well balanced program rangi ing from popular musie to the semi-classical Is announced by Conductor' H. N. Stoudenmeyet for the Salem municipal band's concert tonight starting at o'clock in Wlllson park. The fountain display will be at t o'clock. March . "The Westerner, Overture TT VIA l "Morning, Noon and Night In ViennaT Suppe r I "Cupid Astray? Walts Rolfe Comic opera selection r ..."Mile. ModlsteT Herbert ; Characteristic r trol "Jungle Drums' Ketelbey Vocal (a) T 1 . ugu( , t j Mercer-Carmlchal (b) "Sing Baby, Sing," Pollack Orvllle Beardslev. soloist 1 March -"Swedish Festival! . Perfect Excerpts from "Naughty Marietta Herbert March "Radio Waves Jewell , Finale, official song of the state of Oregon. Rights Argued Over fect upheld the committee's Judg ment in closing the incinerator grounds to unregulated scaveng ing. Restricted Parking , Zone Plea Argued . More interested in getting away to the Softball games than in legislating, the aldermen hur ried through a long list of roi-? tine business, after digressing a discuss "Junking" and to disagree over giving a resident at 12th and Court streets a 12-foot re stricted 'parking zone. The parr ing space was finally allowed bt one filed by the Haaeldorf apart ments management was referred to the street committee. In an action that may forecast an end to the long-lived movje- ment to have the sidewalk load ing platforms on - Liberty street between Ferry and Trade re moved, the council adopted street, committee recommendation that the platforms be torn oat and sidewalks laid. The report, responding to a petition signed by W. F. Brietzke and others, de clared the platforms were a haz Monopoly ard to pedestrians. (Turn to Page t, Col. 4). Youth Drowns In Gravel Pit North of Gty Donovan Dejardih, 14, Is Victim; Efforts of Companions Fail Body Is in Water More Than Hour;" Boats Brought to Aid Donovan A. DeJardin, 14 years old, drowned in 18 feet of water In an abandoned gravel pit near the Mission Bottom school yester day afternoon when he slipped from a board raft on which he had been playing. Unable to swim, DeJardin went under and came up only once. Glen Shedeck, member of the Sa lem first aid squad called to the scene, said DeJardin's companions reported. Rescue efforts of DeJardin's friends failed because of the mur kiness of the water. After falling to find the body by diving, two boats were brought from Wheat land by truck and the body found with grappling hooks. The body had been In the water over an hour when recovered. The boy Is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian DeJar din, route 2, and two sisters, Max- rue, and Elaine of Salem; grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. DeJardin of Gervals and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lelack, Gervals. Funeral at Gervals To Be Wednesday Funeral services will be held Wednesday at I: SO o'clock from the Catholic church at Gervals with Clough-Barrlck company In charge. Interment will be at the Sacred Heart cemetery, Gervals. A near-drowning was averted near the Independence terry Sun day when Robert' L a w r e ft e Swearlngen, aged 20 months, dashed Into the river while his mother was momentarily away. fell down, and was submerged, witnesses reported. The tiny boy was saved by his grandfather, Harry Layton, who waded in waist-deep and pulled him out. The boy had gone under twice, but seemed none the worse after the water had been pounded out of him. The boy had been wading in shallow water with his twin sister, Roberta. Improvement on River Bank, Plan Plans looking toward parking of the Salem river front were started by the city council last night when permission was grant ed the street, parks and public buildings committee to arrange for the filling in of the low area between Court and Chemeketa streets, behind the site of the old gas plant. Alderman Merrill D. Ohling said the filling operations would not only clear the way for a park development but also would cover over a rubbish pile that had frequently caught tire. Under the council's order, a watchman to supervise the dump ing of filling materials will as his remuneration be permitted to live In a small building to be moved to the fill site. After the fill had been completed, the city park board will be asked to improve the riverfront grounds. Building Permits 95,573 in July Building permits totaling $95,' 573 were issued during August by the office of the city building inspector. Of the 111 permits issued only 12 were for the erec tion of new dwellings. Largest item was the permit for the construction of a ware house for the General Food com pany at Trade and Church streets to cost $25,000. Second largest was a permit for $17,000 for the erection of a Seventh Day Ad ventist church building. Pilchard Season Ends' At Coos; Catch Light NORTH BEND. Ore., August 2. -(-Departure of the Santa Ro salia, last remaining purse sem er, brought an apparent end to the pilchard fishing season on Coos bay. The vessel left for Monterey, Calif. Only 500 tons of fish were processed. '. Bridge Bill Is Passed WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-4S5)- House approval sent to the wnue Hnnu fnriav a hill dtrectinr the war department to alter Columbia river bridges at Cascade iocks ana Hood River, Ore., so ocean-going vessels may have access to the nnnl tn fc formed bv Bonneville i - r cam. if r 0 "n ( i A Japanese machine gun unit tn i. i. . pnoto. Beavers Edge out ; Semi-Pro Champs Reliable Shoe Holds Lead Until Sixth; Crowd Is Close to Biggest SILVERTON, Aug. 2 Reli able Shoe, Oregon's semi-pro champion ball team, had the Coast league Portland Beavers on the run tonight, getlng an early three-run lead and staying on top until the sixth; but the Shoemen's four runs in the first and two in the second were all they eould get an the professional aaved tfeir reputations T to S. Faust of the semi-pros hit a home run and Dean a three-bagger off 'the pitching of Cregglns. Of the ten hits the Beavers col lected off "Squeak" Wilson, Sll- verton pitcher drafted recently by Reliable Shoe, Manager Sweeney, Montague and Irish hit two-bag gers. Pesky of Reliable also doubled. Moose Clabaugh, who was ex pected to try for the first homer oyer the distant fence, was the only man Wilson fanned. Greggins struck out three. Portland scored once each in the first and second innings, got two in the fifth and three in the sixth. About the second largest orowd McGlnnis field has seen turned out for the game. Beavers 7 10 t Reliable Shoe 8 5 5 Cregglns and Eraut; Wilson and Messenger. j SILVERTON The Silver Falls baseball team will meet the Giant j (Turn to page 9, col. 5) Salem Slapped on Wrist by Tourist Over Parking Law A California tourist's slap on the wrist gave the city council a laugh last night. The slap was in the form of an envelope labeled as from "a California tourist," in which 'was found a Grants Pass ..visitor-welcoming tag giving out-of-town motor ists 18-hour parking privileges. The card bore the penned in scription, "Salem city, council please note." 1 The Grants Pass card indica ted that Sixth' street, the Pa cific highway there, is reserved to . tourists for . unrestricted parking between t a. m. and midnight. The Salem . council police committee recently announced plans to have "welcome, park as long as you please" tag placed on foreign cars on down town streets but dropped the scheme when attorneys de clared such action was discrim inatory and would invalidate all parking time limit enforce ment. Obstacle Observed at i Port Or ford Entrance ; May Be old Wreckage J PORT-ORFORD. Ore.. Aug. 2. -P)-An obstacle near the harbor mouth here, discovered last week by survey boats, - continued the object of conjecture today. i Suggested possibilities Include that It is the sunken remains of the vessel South Coast, lost with its crew of 18 in 1930, or of the Brother Jonathan, which sailed north from San Francisco In 18 CO with gold aboard to pay soldiers stationed in the northwest, PUNISHING" CHINESE AT ; action during recent ehashes with Retail Prices of Bread Go up Cent For Large Loaves Retail prices of bread advanced a cent a loaf on certain standard sizes of loaves Monday, leading bakers announced. Cellophane - wrapped large loaves advanced to 16 cents, other large loaves to 15 cents. Smaller loaves of specialty breads ad vanced one cent but there was no advance on the small loaves of white and whole wheat bread. There was no advance of more than one cent. Advances in costs of materials. labor and overhead expense caused the increase, it was said. Pierce's Hop Bill Passed by House The bill introduced in congress by Representative Walter Pierce to make hops a crop eligible for marketing agreement under the department of agriculture was passed by the lower house yester day, according to a message re ceived from Rep. Pierce by Wil liam S. Walton, who with C. W. Paulas visited Washington re cently and solicited the aid of Congressman Pierce in obtaining relief for the hopgrowers. By bringing hops in the list of crops for which growers may make marketing agreements pro duction control is possible, which growers and dealers contend is necessary for the welfare of the hop Industry, in order to avoid price-depressing surpluses. Pierce, as member of the house commit tee on agriculture, secured the approval of that committee to his bill; and Monday obtained its passage in the house. The bill now goes to the sen ate. Sen. McNary had previously Introduced a similar bill in that body. Action is b.oped for before the close of the session. Council Endorses One Wine License The city council license com' mittee chairman, Ross Goodman, was twice rebuffed by the alder men last night for his recom mendations for endorsing a Can ton Tavern wine license applica tion and against approving an identical application from Ben Pade, grocer. . Both applications had - been referred to the com mittee two weeks earlier because several aldermen objected to the denial of the Pade license. When the license committee chairman last night reported back only the Canton Tavern applica tion, the council rejected that one. then later in the meeting with drew the Pade request from the committee and granted it. Insurgents Near Valencia's Border, Inflict Heavy Loss HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, Aug. 2 -)- Insurgents pressed their offensive closer to the Valencia province border in the northeast today and inflicted heavy losses on attacking govern ment troops in the south. Insurgent . communiques .from the Teruel front reported General issimo Francisco Franco's forces occupied the village of Betas, broadening the front of their sal ient aimed at severing the main Madrid-Valencia highway. -J . They were said also to have taken the towns of Sierra Car bouera, Vertice, MIna and Torn aque as government troops fled before a push that has carried the Insurgent forces 5t miles south ward through the TJniversalea and Carbonera mountains. A dispatch from insurgent PEIPING the Chinese troops around Peiping. Appeal of Pinball Cases Is" Dropped Action Leaves Crawford's Decision Prevailing; Further Steps Due The long-delayed appeal of Mar ion county marble board opera tors to the supreme court was dis missed yesterday by Chief Justice Henry J. Bean, another injunction suit pending in the local circuit court was dropped and demurrers to the remaining three were tiled by Special Prosecutor Ralph Moody. Judge Bean's action, taken in accordance with a stipulation with Moody made by the two ap pellants, Ji H. 'Campbell and N. J. Arnold, left the marble board and pinball game business under the decree of Circuit Judge James Crawford of Multnomah county, under which they were held to be lotteries and therefore illegal. Prosecutor Moody expects to obtain hearings before Circuit Judge L. G. Le welling here this morning on his demurrers against the recent injunction ac tions of Arnold, John A. Moore and John Craig. J. H. Campbell, who also recently instituted a fresh injunction suit, yesterday moved for its dismissal and Judge Lewelling granted his motion. Law enforcement officers not only in Marion county but also in other parts of the state will be able to act I against the pinball business after today, If Judge Lewelling dismisses the pending circuit court suits, according to Moody. Architects Study Need for Space In State Library Heads of the firm of White house and Church, Portland archi tects, were in Salem Monday con ferring with Miss Harriet Long, state librarian, regarding the general plan of the proposed new state library building. "We are now working out our preliminary j design, with particu lar relation to height of the struc ture, floor space, dimensions and other details," Church said. VThus far our plans are tentative and nothing definite has been determ ined." - The architects said It would be their purpose to have the library building conform In architecture to the new capitol structure. ; No attention has as yet been given to the exact location of the new building, further than it will face Court street and occupy land directly north of the new eapltoL headquarters In Seville - said a government offensive In the Al- cujarra and Sierra de Nevada see tors of the southern front was re pulsed with heavy losses. . .. Government aviation was re ported particularly active, bom barding insurgent airports. Insurgents asserted government troops lost 1,000 men when an at tack on . the northwestern front failed, to break Insurgent lines east' of Ovledo in ' Asturla prov (pce. ' - , - - Despite the stifling heat that had been expected to force a re spite on the central front, west of Madrid, insurgent officers report ed a new thrust against - govern ment lines north of Vlllanueva De La Canada. - ' - They said government g u ns made little answer. Blames Japan Although Raid 'Whites' Work Tientsin Incident Open Moscow-Tokyo Quarrel Again After Truce Nippon Plans new Taxes and Otherwise Makes War Preparations (By the Associated Press) Russia has become the "third power" in the North China crisis. representations to Tokyo and to roused by raiding of the soviet consulate at Tientsin. The soviet government charged last night that Japanese inspired the attack and made diplomatic the Japanese ambassador In Mob cow. Japan disclaimed responsibility. The interior of the consulate was wrecked, Russians recounted, by white Russians and Japanese in plainclothes armed with rifle and machine guns. Many white Russians reside in Tientsin and they are avowed opponents of the soviet regime. Demands Raiders Be Punished Russia demanded that the raid ers be punished, that property . seized be returned, and that there be compensation for damages. ' Ambassador Mamory Shlgemit- -su in Moscow replied that Japan ': could not be expected to comply ; with the demands. The raid was f in the old Russian quarter where Japan had no authority, Shlge-' mitsu said, and occurred while Sino-Japanese conflict created confusion. The raiders all were , Russians, he said. It was the second protest to Japan by Russia in a month. ' A soviet gunboat was sunk la a clash with Japanese along, the, St- . berian-Manchoukuoan border oa -June 30. The clash occurred near the small Amur river - islands claimed by Russia and by Man- ehoukuo, Japan's protectorate. Each nation blamed the other frurn to Page 2, Col. 4) . Firisler Comet to Become Brighter CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 2- (p)-FInsler's .comet a heavenly object with a head eight times larger than the earth and a tail more than two million miles long swept, tonight through the northern sky toward its maxt' mum brilliancy. Camera shutters bare clicked : rapidly on recent nights at the : Harvard observatory in an effort to determine whence the comet came and whether it might ever return. Scientists explained pic tures of the object will be much clearer during its ascendancy than during its declination. Maximum brilliancy, astrono mers predicted, would be attained about August 10, but shortly thereafter the moon will be tn the first quarter and the northern sky ; will be too light for a wholly satisfactory pictorial record of the comet's declination. Justice Lusk to Take Oath.Today PORTLAND, Aug. 2.-(i!p)-HalI S. Lusk submitted his resignation as Multnomah r county circuit judge today. He said he planned to take his oath of office as as sociate justice of the state su preme court at 10 a. m. Tuesday at Salem, . with Chief Justice Henry J. Bean officiating. Alfred P. Dobson, who will suc ceed Judge Lusk as county Judgew will be sworn in at the same time Dike Break Cause Of Flood at Tule KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. J. (AFarmers and CCC ' troopers worked feverishly today to stop the flood resulting from aa 80 foot break in the Tule lake sum? dike. " - - v: The break occurred about the same place of previous breaks on the west side of the lake and water poured over grain fields. B AL L AD E of TOD A V ' By R. a ' Back in those old red-blooded days : when Yankee priva teers prevailed they learned the knack of windward speed, out foxed the . British skippers smug; some secret system made their craft the fastest that bad ever sailed and to this day the Britishers . have never captured that "old mug."